Among the expatriate Goans, Kuwait Goans are known to be more noise making Goans of their power and position in Kuwait because overwhelming majority of them are of hoi-polloi family category. In Kuwait there are innumerable Goan associations and clubs manned by their presidents and other office bearers. Many of them are known to make a big show of them as if they are leading personalities in the world even though no expatriate associations are recognised by the local government. Our associations are our own dominions known to us only. Local authorities are least interested in our associations and our activities. Our associations and our activities are unknown to them.
During my last so many years of residence in Kuwait I saw so many presidents and other office bearers who were acting as if they were powerful Goans. Watching from their style of behaving, talking and acting many times I got an impression that they were Devine creatures come from Heaven to represent Divinity. But in reality within myself internally I laughed at them as if they were big jokers and in fact they were big jokers. For them their world was only around their own circles, clubs and associations. Job wise they may be good in their trade and professions but as human beings they were idiots of first grade. They din’t integrate with intellectually high calibre society because intellectually they were bankrupt, they din’t act big for the cause of Goa and Goans because they din’t have big brain power, they were afraid of smart people because they were not smart since they were suffering from ancestral inferiority complex. Many of them got girls to marry only because they were working in Kuwait.
All the so called top Kuwait Goans who were dominating Goan scenes in Kuwait and acting as Lords in Kuwait and now living retired life in Goa are living as unknown entities. Nobody knows of their presence in Goa as it was in Kuwait. They are visible only in the Churches attending the Church services regularly in their own localities. The way they were active in Kuwait it looked they would dominate not only their village level activities but also at Goa level as well. But NO! They are all lost in Goa making people like us to ask “WHERE ARE THEY NOW IN GOA?” Why they are living like unknown Cockroaches inspite of having vast experience in doing activities in Kuwait backed by their financial resources?
Where are all the presidents and other office bearers of Kuwait Goan associations gone now? Where they are hiding now from public life? Where are all the Goan Managers gone now especially those who were harassing Goan staff working under them? Are they hiding somewhere under the Petticoats of their wives for fear of reprisal for the sins they did against Goans in Kuwait during their hey days of power, position and money? Can they play the same arrogance and same ”Dadagiri” in Goa as they used to play in Kuwait? No, never, for this reason they are hiding from public galore and they will remain there thus till they die.
To do public activities in Kuwait in your community is easy because in your community especially in Goan community the leaders are like one eyed men among all his blind followers. These Goan leaders can handle only the cheap activities where you can get lot of cheap prominence. You can see such people on the surface in foot-ball circle, Church circle and Dance circle. Some of the cheap Goan leaders you will find in these circles only doing cheap activities. In current Goa such Kuwaitkars have no place to survive.
Kuwait.